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BT Publish Latest 21CN WBC 20Mbps UK Copper Broadband Rollout Update

8th Nov, 2013 (101 Comments)

BTWholesale has today furnished ISPreview.co.uk with their latest telephone exchange based roll-out update for the on-going deployment of the 21CN based Wholesale Broadband Connect (WBC) platform; specifically the part that supports their up to 20Mbps capable ADSL2+ solution.

FREE Superfast WiFi Service in Birmingham UK City Centre Goes Live

8th Nov, 2013 (0 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media Business confirms that it has completed the build of their new “super-fast” public wifi wireless Internet hotspot service in the centre of Birmingham, which covers around 2.5 square miles of the city and offers “no usage limits“.

Ofcom to Let Concept Solutions People Expand UK Fibre Optic Network

8th Nov, 2013 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator has proposed to grant Code Powers to Concept Solutions People (CSP), which would allow them carry out street works in order to expand the reach of their point-to-point fibre optic network to include new urban locations with a view to the “development and commercialisation of regional open access networks“.

ThinkingWISP Expand Wireless Broadband Further into South Norfolk UK

8th Nov, 2013 (8 Comments)

Fixed wireless broadband ISP ThinkingWISP, which was first established in 2011 as a local partnership between InTouch Systems, the Norfolk Rural Community Council and AF Affinity to improve Internet access around rural Norfolk and some parts of Suffolk in England, have confirmed plans to expand their existing network.

Vodafone Fail Ofcoms UK 3G Mobile Broadband Coverage Requirement

7th Nov, 2013 (5 Comments)

Mobile operator Vodafone UK has failed Ofcom’s 3G based Mobile Broadband coverage obligation, which requires them to provide related network coverage in the 2100MHz band to at least 90% of the UK population. But apparently they only fell short by 1.4%.

Entanet Outlines UK ISP Migration Plan After O2 Wholesale Closure

7th Nov, 2013 (5 Comments)

Communications provider Entanet, which supplies a number of UK Internet providers with broadband services, has this week become the latest operator to publish plans for moving their existing O2/BE Wholesale based unbundled (LLU) lines away from that network and onto their BT-based platform.

Hull ISP KC Calls UK Broadband Speed Demand Study a Dangerous Red Herring

7th Nov, 2013 (5 Comments)

The Hull-based incumbent telecoms provider KC, which covers part of East Yorkshire in England, has advised the UK Government to ignore an “unambitious” new study by the Broadband Stakeholder Group after it suggested that a “median household” might only require bandwidth of 19Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2023.

UPDATE ISPA Conference to Discuss Future of the UK Internet and Broadband

6th Nov, 2013 (6 Comments)

The 8th annual ISPA Conference, which will be held on Wednesday 27th November 2013 (9:15am – 4pm), has set out quite an interesting agenda and one that intends to look at the state of national broadband provision (both now and post-2015) as well as what ISPs might look like in ten years’ time.

Virgin Media UK Scrapes Upwards to Reach 4.48m Broadband Subscribers

6th Nov, 2013 (5 Comments)

Cable operator Virgin Media (Liberty Global) has today published its latest Q3-2013 (calendar) results and confirmed that their total broadband ISP subscriber base has crept upwards by +13,600 in the quarter to total 4,488,600, which follows a slight fall of -15.5k during the prior Q2 period. Network coverage has also improved.

Right Holders Seek to Stop Geographic Internet Address Masking

6th Nov, 2013 (14 Comments)

Not content with tackling Internet piracy it now looks as if some Copyright Holders want to stop people from accessing legal content in other countries by blocking services that allow you to go online via the Internet address (IP) of a different location (e.g. such as when you use a VPN to view UK online TV content from the USA). Satellite ISPs take note.

UPD2 BT Openreach FTTC Superfast Broadband Modems Break VPN Access

5th Nov, 2013 (2 Comments)

The Director of broadband ISP Andrews & Arnold (AAISP), Adrian Kennard, claims to have discovered a fault with the superfast broadband FTTC (VDSL) modems that BTOpenreach distributes to new subscribers, which can affect “almost anyone running any sort of VPN” (Virtual Private Network) Internet service.

BSG Claims UK Homes to Only Need 19Mbps Broadband Speeds by 2023

5th Nov, 2013 (104 Comments)

The Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG), which advises the Government on broadband matters, has published a new report that claims to outline a “new way for measuring and forecasting demand for bandwidth in UK homes“. The research concludes that the “median household” will require bandwidth of 19Mbps (Megabits per second) by 2023.

Ofcom Start Publishing Raw UK Fixed Line Broadband ISP Speedtest Data

5th Nov, 2013 (0 Comments)

The UK telecoms regulator, Ofcom, has decided to publish some of the raw data that’s used to construct their bi-annual fixed line broadband speeds report (e.g. the August 2013 Report) and have made it available to the public via XLS (MS Excel) and CSV format.

Gigaclear to Deploy 1Gbps Fibre Broadband to 3 More UK Rural Villages

5th Nov, 2013 (7 Comments)

Fibre optic ISP Gigaclear has confirmed that broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps (Gigabit per second) should soon become available to 1,500 homes and 4 business parks in Farmoor and Stanton Harcourt (Oxfordshire, England) alongside Underriver and its surrounding villages in Kent.

EE Begin UK Trial of Ultrafast 300Mbps 4G LTE-A Mobile Broadband Speeds

5th Nov, 2013 (6 Comments)

EE (4GEE) has confirmed that its first trial of ultrafast 300Mbps (Megabits per second) capable 4G (LTE) based Mobile Broadband speeds should get underway in East London (Tech City) today, although the full commercial roll-out isn’t due to begin until summer 2014; once more end-user hardware is available to support it.

UK Next Gen 5G Mobile Broadband Development Centre Gets a Timetable

4th Nov, 2013 (3 Comments)

Ofcom has revealed that the UK government’s £35 million+ investment to setup a 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the University of Surrey, which will be used to develop the next (5th) generation of ultrafast Mobile Broadband technology, is due to be completed by the start of 2015.

CityFibre and ISP Gigler Bring 1Gbps Packages to Bournemouth UK Firms

4th Nov, 2013 (0 Comments)

The CityFibre backed ISP Gigler, which supplies a 1000Mbps (500Mbps uploads) capable Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) broadband network to 21,000 premises in the south coast city of Bournemouth (England), has today launched a range of new business packages for local firms.